A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to the $206 billion settlement between the Big Five tobacco companies and 46 s...

For 10 years, Camarillo's Vitesse Semiconductor Inc. has depended on the versatile legal representation of Francis Currie, a c...

Los Alamos, N.M., residents who think the federal government is going to compensate them adequately after this month's devasta...

The Closer: By Arthur Gross-Schaefer Attorney burnout is a critical problem that needs to be addressed in a proactive manner b...

Deals: Santa Monica's X:drive Inc., which specializes in Internet storage and file-access services for global corporations and...

Deals: Bank of the Sierra, headquartered in Porterville, has acquired Bakersfield's Sierra National Bank. The value of the dea...

Deals: Internet imaging company Xippix Inc. has acquired Cafex Corp., a Larkspur-based company that designs and develops datab...

Forum: By Robert A. Levy No, Congress didn't authorize a Food, Drug, and Tobacco Administration. Despite the Clinton administr...

Firm Watch: Chicago-based Winston & Strawn has added three more partners to its Los Angeles office: commercial litigators ...

Corporate Councel: The entire nation's in-house bar is feeling victorious after a near-unanimous California Supreme Court ruli...

The drumbeat for an outside investigation and oversight of the Los Angeles Police Department continued to build last week . Me...

Running Springs attorney John R. Marcus filed a lawsuit Thursday against the San Bernardino County Superior Court, alleging th...

Firm Watch: Crosby Heafey Roach & May announced it has recruited 10 new associates: three in San Francisco, three in Los A...

Firm Watch: Two corporate and securities lawyers - Nora Lynne Gibson and John L. Donahue - have been nabbed by Palo Alto's Wil...

Attempts at the state level to put an end to race-based policing remain caught in the swirl of local politics. Late last week,...

After spending 28 years at Los Angeles-based Tuttle & Taylor, senior tax partner C. David Anderson has defected to Los Ang...

Firm Watch: San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster continues to expand its presence in San Diego by recruiting Craig A. Schlo...

The Los Angeles County alternate public defender's office said Friday that prosecutors have rejected its request to soften the...

Firm Watch: Century City's Irell & Manella has recruited Eric Suddleson , former head of business and legal affairs at Los...

SACRAMENTO - The grim scandal involving 5,000 sets of cremated human remains found in a Contra Costa storage locker in 1997 ha...

Flamboyant Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell and his firm of jugular-fixated young Turks had a huge week last week. ...

Forum: By Elizabeth J. Cabraser Remember that intolerably bright kid in law school - the one who delighted in perverse argumen...

U.S. Supreme Court Column: WASHINGTON - If lawyers want to know how to tick off the Supreme Court justices, they should ask Fl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Troubled Pelican Bay State Prison came in for sharp criticism from a court-appointed monitor this week for its...

Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Renee Laurents The season finale deserves a curtain call. This blend of Broadway musical theater an...

Practitioner: Criminal Law By Alex Ricciardulli Proposition 21 is a potpourri of new laws, impacting many aspects of Californi...

Forum: By Dennis C. Jett After U.N. peacekeepers proved incapable of handling the chaos in Sierra Leone, Richard Holbrooke, th...

^^Feature^^ By Deborah Rosenthal According to Michael Wade, of Los Angeles' Demler, Armstrong and Wade, "the complexity of bad...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tosco Corp., which suffered one of the worst accidents in Northern California refining history when four worke...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Rosa family lawyer and two-time City Council candidate has pleaded no contest to charges that she stol...